Improvement in stove-lids



C. F. GREENMAN.

STOVE-LID.

No.174,807 Patented March 14, 1876.

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CHARLES F. GREENMAN, OF GREEN, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS I RIGHT TO S. W. SOESBE, 0F SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE-LIDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 174,807, dated March 14, 1876; application filed To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. GREEN- MAN, of Green, in the county of Butler and State of Iowa, have invented a new and val uable Improvement in Stove-Lids; and 1- do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a plan view of my stove-lid, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional View thereof.

This invention has relation to means for preventing the escape of smoke into the room when a pothole cover is removed, and also for preventing the bottoms of pots from being smoked, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, A designates the top plate of a cook-stove, and B designates a deep dish, the upper edge of which is flanged, as shown at a, which flange is received in an annular groove made in the plate A, and sustains the dish in its proper place. The groove or rabbet in the stove-plate is deeper than the February 19, 1876.

thickness of the flange a, so that when the pot-hole cover 0 is in its place it will be flush with the surface of the plate A.

The dish B may be made of any desired depth, and in its bottom a depression, I), is made, crossed by a bridge, for the purpose of receiving a handle with which to lift the dish 7 The depressed disk B, flanged, and combined with the pot-hole and its cover, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES F. GREENMAN.

Witnesses G. O. THOMAS, S. THOMAS. 

